To think it’s not THAT weird to not have Netflix?

My manager was asking yesterday if I’d seen the Madeleine McCann documentary. I said I hadn’t because I don’t have Netflix. From his reaction you would have thought I’d said I still had an outside loo or lived in a mud hut. ‘How can you not have Netflix?!’

My answer was ‘quite easily’. It’s not like we’re still in the days of three terrestrial channels. How many channels do we get on Freeview, plus catch-up etc. There’s already stuff I want to watch but haven’t had the chance to yet. Why would I pay for a subscription too?

This isn’t one of those ‘Where do people get the time to watch so much television? I’m FAR too busy’ threads (which are really just a way to sound superior). I love watching TV; in fact I would have said I watch more than average. But there are only so many non-working hours in a day. Even if I did nothing else but watch TV, I can’t magic up extra time to do it in.

I get that Netflix is popular and it’s not that I don’t get the ‘on demand’ appeal. But I didn’t think it was now so mainstream that people would be taken aback that I don’t have it. Am I really in the minority, or is my boss just being OTT?

We don’t have Netflix -or sky or anything else- just the millions of channels that are on TV. I do watch a lot of TV as, due to health conditions, I am sitting down a lot of the time and I still don’t feel the need to pay for more to watch.

We don’t have Netflix -or sky or anything else- just the millions of channels that are on TV. I do watch a lot of TV as, due to health conditions, I am sitting down a lot of the time and I still don’t feel the need to pay for more to watch.

Exactly - there’s a ton of stuff out there already! I wouldn’t criticise anyone else for spending their money on it, but I find it strange that people somehow see it as ‘essential’.

We only got it at Christmas time but DP is already thinking he might cancel it (I don’t really watch movies but do like it for TV series) as he’s seen all the movies anyway. It’s not that strange not to have Netflix!

I've had it about a year. Has previously been a waste of money as I never used it, mainly as similarly to you I have tons of channels, catch up and Sky+ box with loads on it.

Also, my TV was quite old, so I could only access Netflix through a Roku USB in the back of my TV, which is a bit of a faff.

Anyway, was going to cancel it. But was off sick last week, couldn't find anything I fancied watching. Went onto Netflix and going a couple of cool series and cheesy films. Then my bloody TV packed up on Sunday after almost a decade's faithful service.

We went and got a new TV and it's got Netflix, internet and catch up all installed on the TV, so less of a faff now. Will see if we use Netflix more frequently now it's easier to use. If not, will cancel it.

We have Netflix but haven't got a TV aerial so only have iplayer and Netflix. That's more weird than not having Netflix! If we had a working TV aerial and could get freeview I'd probably get rid of Netflix.

I've just googled to check, and it's only possibly this year that Netflix has had more customers than Sky. So until recently anyone who assumed everyone has pay TV should be assuming Sky before they assume Netflix.